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SERVING DEVICE Filed April 20, 1949 HTTOP/VeEY I UNITED I 'sions to use one hand for holding the plate on the lever is reciprocated it will sweep across the Patented Feb. 7, 1950 v 2 495 903 first! SERVING DEVICE? W- P Year I 1 Application April 20, 1949, Serial No. 88,529

i 1 Claim. (01. 294-1) This invention relates to household utensils blade and adjacent the base thereof there is proand in particular'to a device for serving cake, pie vided a spring-loaded lever pivotally mounted and the like. intermediate its ends so as to form a dispensing Conventional devices for serving cake, pie and lever M of the long arm, while the short arm is the like normally comprise a large two-edged curved and bent at right angles to the lev r 14 to curved knife blade fitted with ahandle. Whether form a tab l6 by which the lever M can be the cake or pie is cut with the blade or with a reciprocated. separate knife, the serving device is always used In Figs. 2 and 3 it should be noted that in the to lift the slice from the whole cake or pie and preferred form thedispensing lever i4 is curved for dispensing it onto a plate. Most cakes are i0 concave with respect to the blade thereby concomposed of sticky materials so that it is difforming substantially to the curvature of the ficult to slide the slice off the blade. Pie slices slice of cake or pie. If desired the abutment or are friable and tend to disintegrate when handled. stop I I may also be curved as shown to conform It is customary with prior cake and pie servers to the curvature of the lever 14. The lever I4 is to use a separate knife or a fork to push the preferably mounted so that the lower edge I! slice off the serving blade but this operation rethereof is in contact with or close proximity to quires two hands. Since it is desirable on occathe upper surface I8 of the blade I0 so that when which the whole cake or pie rests and to attempt surface of the blade. This positioning is imto serve the slices therefrom with the other hand. portant because it provides means for keeping It is a general object of the present invention to the major surface of the blade clean of cake. provide a device for lifting and dispensing slices icing which frequently runs down from the rear of cake, pie and the like which requires the use of the cake slice. Any suitable spring may be of only one hand for all these operations. used for loading the lever H, but in the preferred A specific object is a lifting and dispensing embodiment there is employed a coil spring 20 device for serving slices of cake, pie and the like surrounding a bolt 2| passing loosely through two which is provided with an automatic dispensing spaced horizontal tabs 22 of the back stop H and means for forcing the slice from the blade. two spaced horizontal tabs 23 extendin from he According to this invention there is provided a lever 14, one end 24 of the spring bearing against device for lifting and serving slices of cake, pie 3( the back of the stop I d e her end 25 and the like comprising a fiat blade, a stop exbearing against the thumb tab it, so that the tending upwardly and transversely at the base of spring normally maintains the lever M against the blade, a handle attached to the base of the the back stop ll. blade, a lever pivotally mounted at one side edge In Fig. 4 there is shown another embodiment of of the blade adjacent the base and adapted to 5 a spring loaded blade-sweeping lever. In this sweep across the blade and scrape the upper embodiment the back stop H of the device shown surface thereof, and a spring arranged to hold in Fig. 2 is eliminated. The lever Ma is pivotally the lever against the stop. mounted on the back edge of the blade as in Referring to the accompanying drawing, Fig. 2 and the blade is mounted on the handle l2a Fig. 1 is a side elevation of one embodiment by means of two extensions 26 which are fastened of the utensil; to the sides of the blade by screws 21. The end Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the utensil of Fig. 1; of the handle adjacent the blade is formed with Fig. 3 is a front elevation, partly in section of a cavity 28 in which is fixed by screw 29 a coiled the utensil of Fig. 2 taken along the line 3--3 spring '30 having the other end welded to the th r f, 5 back of the curved lever Ma. When the handle Fig. 4 is a detailed elevation, partly in section, lid is pressed toward the handle 12a. the lever of the spring-loaded dispensing lever and back Ma will sweep across the blade Na and thus stop. expand and extend the spring 30. When the In the preferred embodiment, the device compressure on the thumb tab lBa is released the prises, in combination, an elongate two-edged flat spring 30 will draw the lever Ma back to the norblade l0 having a portion at the rear of the blade mal position shown in Fig. 4.

bent upward to form an abutment or stop H The invention is capable of various changes in which serves also as means for attaching the form and structure within the disclosure of the blade to a handle l2 by conventional. means such invention illustrated. The handle l2 and i211. as a bolt or screw t3. At one side edge of the may be fashioned of metal, wood or plastic mate- Iclaim: In a device for lifting and serving slices 01' cake, pie and th aid lever and extending .beyond the pivot point of said lever, and a. spring arranged and positioned to ma a. position substantiall The following tain said lever normally in ALFRED W. DOUX.

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